‘Babylon 5’ is great, so why does it look so bad? https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/22/babylon-5-digital-video-quality/
Why it’s so hard to develop the right material for brain implants - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/30/17408852/brain-implant-materials-neuroscience-health-chris-bettinger
Look Down: How Toynbee Tiles Invaded (And Disappeared From) Pittsburgh Streets | 90.5 WESA http://wesa.fm/post/look-down-how-toynbee-tiles-invaded-and-disappeared-pittsburgh-streets#stream/0
GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5 Billion Undo Button - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-06/github-is-microsoft-s-7-5-billion-undo-button
What caused Elon Musk’s Twitter meltdown? He’s enraged people stopped believing his tall tales. - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2018/5/30/17405922/elon-musk-twitter-meltdown-tesla-valuation-bubble-model-3-promises-reality
Happy Day of Discord, everyone. (5/23) See you again on 5/32!
‘Crush Them’: An Oral History of the Lawsuit That Upended Silicon Valley - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/5/18/17362452/microsoft-antitrust-lawsuit-netscape-internet-explorer-20-years
‘Crush Them’: An Oral History of the Lawsuit That Upended Silicon Valley - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/5/18/17362452/microsoft-antitrust-lawsuit-netscape-internet-explorer-20-years
The CIA made a Magic: The Gathering-style card game for training agents, and we played it - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/21/17374054/cia-collect-it-all-declassified-training-tabletop-card-game
Google’s Selfish Ledger is an unsettling vision of Silicon Valley social engineering - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/17/17344250/google-x-selfish-ledger-video-data-privacy
Bad idea of the day: philosophy speed-dating: get a prime number of doctoral candidates, split into two lines, and have them give hot takes to each other for 5 minutes on a stated topic before moving on.
In the future when people tell me the web stack is an acceptable GUI layer I should just show them this: https://www.vox.com/2018/5/3/17309078/digital-art-diana-a-smith-francine-coded-browser-art ; if drawing a picture is impressive with your tools, your tools are shit
Hans Holbein’s Dance of Death (1523–5) – The Public Domain Review http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/hans-holbeins-dance-of-death-1523-5/
You can now play with Spotify’s rec… https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/2/5/16974194/spotify-recommendation-algorithm-playlist-hack-nelson
A Tiny New York Town With Not One, But 5 Indie Bookstores - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hobart-book-village
Hyperpartisanship could destroy US democracy. - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/9/5/16227700/hyperpartisanship-identity-american-democracy-problems-solutions-doom-loop
5 Gaming Tools to Help Your Writing | Tor/Forge Blog http://www.torforgeblog.com/2017/07/10/5-gaming-tools-to-help-your-writing/?utm_source=exacttarget&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_term=na-haspilarticle&utm_content=na-readblog-blogpost&utm_campaign=torjuly17newsletter&et=35866-n19595941
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@kas@enotty.dk If i’m reading http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.5 correctly, the character ‘:’ is explicitly allowed
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Okay, i admin, i have no idea what a TZAG is? And thanks for the great link about CloudFlare! MITM on 5% of the web…
Nix 1.5.3 released
Nix 1.5.3
has been released. This is primarily a bug fix release. See the release\
 notes for details. ⌘ Read more
Nix 1.5.1 released
Nix 1.5.1
has been released. It fixes a regression introduced in Nix 1.4. See the release\
 notes for details. ⌘ Read more
We now have a fairly complete set of KDE 4.2 packages in Nixpkgs
and NixOS. Previously we had KDE 3.5, but it was rather
incomplete: just kdelibs and kdebase.
Now we have all that desktop goodness, such as
kdemultimedia, kdenetwork and kdegames.
You can enable KDE 4 in NixOS by setting the
services.xserver.sessionType option to
kde4. Thanks go to Yury G. Kudryashov, And … ⌘ Read more
New build farm hardware at TUD
To quote
Eelco Visser: new
hardware for buildfarm at Delft University of Technology has
arrived.
Here’s what we have: 5 Intel Core 2 Duo DualCore machines
with 1GB RAM, 2 Mac minis with 1,83-GHz Intel Core
Duo-processor, another Core 2 Duo a UPS to deal with spikes in
power supp … ⌘ Read more